Complex Langevin dynamics at finite chemical potential: Mean field analysis in the relativistic Bose gas

Feb, 2009
20 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (2009) 052
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Abstract: (arXiv)
Stochastic quantization can potentially be used to simulate theories with a complex action due to a nonzero chemical potential. We study complex Langevin dynamics in the relativistic Bose gas analytically, using a mean field approximation. We concentrate on the region with a Silver Blaze problem and discuss convergence, stability, fixed points, and the severeness of the sign problem. The real distribution satisfying the extended Fokker-Planck equation is constructed and its nonlocal form is explained. Finally, we compare the mean field results in finite volume with the numerical data presented in Ref. [1].
Note:
  • 20 pages, 6 eps figures, discussion on the severeness of the sign problem added, to appear in JHEP
  • potential: chemical
  • boson: gas
  • quantization: stochastic
  • mean field approximation
  • Fokker-Planck equation
  • fixed point
  • stability
  • gas: relativistic
  • action: complex
  • Langevin equation